https://cypressf.com/qwen38-pelican.svg
Notably it added a cheeky fish in the beak.
I tried using their OpenAI-compatible API and got one that's a lot less fun (no animation) - https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht...
It took a LOT of reasoning time before it spit it out. 10 min or more?
I wish I had created an account first because I lost the chain-of-thought that it used. I remember a couple highlights. There was an internal monologue about whether it was worth it to animate the legs and pedals, and a lot of repeated text about focusing on “a cohesive visual design.”
I don’t make svg art so I’m no expert, but I am also surprised at how small the resulting svg ended up. I expected LLM output to be more verbose, especially considering the animations.
I’m curious what happens if you retry a couple times. The nondeterminism might be strong enough to have highly variable outcomes.
openrouter usually picks these up pretty fast, hopefully it shows up there soon. You can also just download the qwen app and do this in the chat interface using their MCP tools for local dev.
Okay so this is entirely off topic but, are there any options to subscribe to these companies without having a credit card? (I am Brazilian if this makes a difference)
It's kind of wild that a Chinese AI lab will require something like.. a credit card with visa or mastercard label, and very little else.
https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht... (scroll to bottom for pelican)
Nobody thinks this is okay or that Simon should have to play those games. The point of the reply was that while this is stupid, the solution is trivial.
I’m genuinely very curious what the point of comments like this is. I am not joking, I want to understand.
I see examples like it 50 times a week in random places, and nobody walks me through their mental state to help me understand what they thought the point was.
Also, these companies (or data brokers) likely share ban and alt account lists, ban evading could hurt the reputation of all your accounts.
These are some pragmatic reasons not to evade bans.
The fawning that some users do over others because of their careers is really unbecoming.
I wish the kind of people who did this stuff would realize that there are only two possibilities here -- the person they're saying it to cringes a little bit time they hear it because they're a normal person or they smile a bit inside because they're mildly narcissistic and therefore not worthy of the incessant praise.
The best thing you can do for everyone involved is to treat people normally and not elevate people to celebrity status.
I wonder how a blackout on usernames for a day or so after they're posted would shape conversation here.